Rubber brush



J. P. HOYT.

RUBBBR BRUSH.

(No Model.)

Patented Jan. 10, 1888.

NA PETERS. Fhol'rl-ilhogmphnr. Washington. D.C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES PHILLIPS HOYT, OF NEWTOWN, CONNECTICUT.

RUBBER BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,385, dated January 10, 1888.

Application filed September 16, 1886. Serial No. 213,647. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs PHILLIPS HOYT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newtown, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rubber Brushes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specication, Figure l is an elevation of a rubber reservoir and brush formed in a single piece; Fig. 2, a section illustrating a form in which the reservoir and brush are formed from a single piece ofrubber, the brush being shown in connection with an ordinary mucilage-bottle, and serving as a cork or stopper therefor; Fig. 3, a section of a solid rubber brush and the handle therefor, made in a` single piece; and Fig. et isa plan View illustrating the ends of several styles of brushes.

Similar numbers denote the same parts in all the iigures.

1 denotes a brushvformed by splitting the end or ends of one or more solid or tubular pieces of soft rubber. As shown in Fig. 4, the cuts in the ends of the pieces of rubber may be made crosswise or radially and in circles.

The exact size of thethreads or split ends of the pieces of rubber is not an essential feature of my invention, it being apparent that details of this class must be left to the j udgment of the manufacturer. These threads or ends take the place of the bristles or vegetable fibers in ordinary brushes, and their size may be varied to suit the special purposes for which they are intended. 1 have found in practice that brushes of this class are adapted to all the uses to which bristle or fiber 'brushes are now applied, that they 'appl'y any liquid substance-21s, for example, mucilage or paintsmoothly and evenly, that they do not clog up, and that they are practically indestructible.

It will of course be understood that these brushes may be made of any desired shapes or sizes and applied to all the uses to which other brushes, large or small, are applied, and, furthermore, that tlie term rubber is used in its generic sense, it being obvious that other y is iilled by exhausting the air, placing the brush under the surface of the mucilage or other liquid, and allowing the same to enter the bulb when the pressure is released, the device being, in short, an integral combined reservoir and brush.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a reservoir and brush made in a single piece, and so molded that the reservoir serves both as a handle and as a cork or stopper for an ordinary mucilage-bottle, 9.

It will of course be understood that my invention is not limited to any special details of construction; but,

Having thus fully described and illustrated my invention, I claiml. As a new manufacture, a brush formed by splitting the end of a piece of rubber, and a handle therefor formed integral with the brush.

2. The combination,with a mucilage or other bottle, of a brush and handle made from a single piece ofsoft rubber,the handle thereof being adapted to serve as 'a cork -for the bottle, and the brush being formed by splitting the end of the piece of rubber, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES PHILLIPS HoY'r. A'

Witnesses:

HENRY T. NIcHoLs, HARRY S. NIoHoLs. 

